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Jan. 29: PB’s `ultimate’ luxury food-and-wine affair?

Taking place later this month in Palm Beach: an event some have proclaimed the “ultimate” luxury food-and-wine experience supporting a good cause.

More than 200 guests will gather Jan. 29 at the Mar-a-Lago Club (1100 S. Ocean Blvd.), where they’ll bid with goblet-shaped paddles on rare wine vintages while sampling fine cuisine by a small army of top-notch chefs.

The Palm Beach Wine Auction—it’s $1,000 a person—is in its 8th year and it has raised more than $2 million for its annual beneficiary: education programs, including multi-faceted children’s programs, at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.

According to the event’s chairperson this year, Ted Mandes, “To reach out and help with opening a child’s mind to the performing arts isn’t just a cause, but an ongoing obligation.”

The evening’s five-course dinner will be prepared by Mar-a-Lago’s executive chefs Bogdan Boerean and Graham Randall, as well as several visiting chefs, including Zach Bell, a four-time James Beard Award nominee and executive chef at Addison Reserve Country Club in Delray Beach.

The auction of the evening features more than 40 lots and, in addition to rare wines and spirits from around the globe, they include luxury travel experiences, among other things.